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StartIsBack logo StartIsBack

StartIsBack returns Windows 10 and Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7. It's totally awesome and easy solution for your new Windows woes.

bbLean logo bbLean

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  • StartIsBack Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-21
  • bbLean Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-31

StartIsBack videos

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StartisBack++ 2.6.2 | Review | Full Version | Full Function | 2018

More videos:

  • Review - Customize Windows 10 With StartIsBack++ And Visual Styles
  • Tutorial - StartIsBack Windows 8 App Review - How to Get the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8

bbLean videos

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Blackbox for Windows | bbLean for Windows

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to StartIsBack and bbLean)

StartIsBack

bbLean

Note Taking
100 100%
Note Taking
0% 0
OS & Utilities
64 64%
OS & Utilities
36% 36
LMS
100 100%
LMS
0% 0
Image Optimisation
0 0%
Image Optimisation
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, StartIsBack should be more popular than bbLean. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

StartIsBack mentions (10)

  • PSA: If anyone wants a better start menu experience on Windows, install Open Shell
    If you use Windows 10, startisback is by the same dev as StartAllBack: http://startisback.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
  • I made Windows 10 look like Windows 8.1
    Just a sec, I made Windows 10 look like Windows 8.1 with Startisback (get it at startisback.com if you don't have it). Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Glad to say I stayed with vegas pro since i started editing about 7 years ago. Just finished cutting 1000+ clips from EOS r6 10bit clog3 and a7iii 8bit final time of 1 and half hour in my laptop and it never had a single hic-cup. Might be due to the last build 636 update that it is much stable now.
    Haha..got you there....its a windows 10 and I added startallback (https://startisback.com) for that sweet windows 7 logo only. I hate that boxy logo design of win 10. It's a msi prestige 15 11th gen i7 with 16gb ram. Video cards are Intel Iris Xe and Nvidia 1650. The intel graphics tends to do better when selected as primary for vegas pro since it runs parallel with nvidia and can decode faster that way. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Everyday Im reminded I will lose Windows 8.1 in less then a year. I saw some people posting their setups so I thought it might be a not bad idea to post mine.
    Non-free: https://startisback.com/. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Honestly, Windows 11 is not that impressive.
    StartAllBack, startisback.com, 30-day trial and $4.99 after that. I wasn't totally satisficed with it. When Start11 added the Windows 10 start menu, I went back to it. Source: over 2 years ago
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bbLean mentions (1)

  • A forgotten webpage: Stardock.com - This year in skinning (2002) - Windows XP skins
    I used to love this stuff, I had a sick bblean setup. Now I'm old and lazy and I leave everything default and make my desktop background a solid color. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing StartIsBack and bbLean, you can also consider the following products

Open Shell - Open Shell is a fork of the Classic Shell project for Windows that getting back the classic start...

WindowBlinds - WindowBlinds is a computer program that allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface.

Classic Shell - Classic Shell was developed for Windows 8 since that was the first version of the popular operating system to forgo the iconic Start menu.

Cairo Shell - Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows.

Start Menu X - Start Menu X with Start Button. Power users know how inconvenient and time-consuming it is to launch programs from the system menu.

Talisman Desktop - Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek...

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